Buy one today, while they still mean something … ain’t gonna happen tonight in Little Rock, Arkansas. But that won’t stop lil’ UT-Arlington from showing up as blowout fodder for the No. 1-seeded Memphis Tigers in the NCAA Tournament first-round game. After waiting 49 years for their debut, the Movin’…
Got our copy of Aspire Higher: Winning On and Off the Court with Determination, Discipline & Decisions — otherwise known as Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson’s inspirational self-help tome, which comes complete with an eight-page forward from … Jerry Jones? O…K. Don’t wanna spoil the ending, but this is the…
Before soccer balls, there were circuit boards. Turns out, Tom Hicks hasn’t been liked in England for quite a while now, since long before the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars’ owner bought into the famed Liverpool football club. Dates back several years, back to when Hicks was the chairman and…
From stage. To national stage. UT-Arlington, whose athletic legacy seemed eternally chained to both the humor of playing hoops on a theater floor in Texas Hall and the horror of axing its football program, is about to participate in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It’s historic. It’s surreal. It’s reaffirmation…
Point, Counterpoint Here are some of the arguments that creationists make to counter the theory of evolution, along with their scientific counter arguments: Biological structures are too complex to have arisen by chance. “Chance plays a part in evolution (for example, in the random mutations that can give rise to…
A few weeks before the March 4 Republican primary, a group of candidates gathered at the Shady Valley Golf Club in Arlington for a meet-and-greet luncheon with voters. For the most part, the candidates were seasoned pros who all seemed to know each other, but one stood out from the…
Veterinary malpractice, wrongful canine death, lawsuits against unethical breeders—the legal system is going to the dogs. Attorney Yolanda Eisenstein specializes in “animal law.” So far, she’s the only lawyer in Dallas whose practice focuses on the rights, needs and welfare of pets. Like hotel queen Leona Helmsley, you want to…
For those who can’t get enough Schutze talk — and by that, I mean Schutze — may we direct your browser elsewhere, if only for a moment? Swell. Because over on FrontBurner, I’ve discovered the name of my first novel: “Somebody was deep throating Jim Schutze.” Meanwhile, over on The…
ABC News Dr. William Rae and Nightline’s Terry Moran, from tonight’s upcoming broadcast. It says on the Web site for the Environmental Health Center on Walnut Hill Lane that founder William J. Rea, M.D. “is a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon with a strong passion for the environmental aspects of health…
Dallas-based CringeMedia, purveyor of the best worst broadcasting bits available on VHS, is back on the YouTube after a brief absence. Which means more CringeVideo for watching with your eyes, if you dare. And which means, praise the Baby Jeebus, more and more Mr. Peppermint. Because, notes CV in the…
Harry Thomason, one of the producers of 12 Miles of Bad Road Got quite the surprise in the morning mail: all six unaired episodes of 12 Miles of Bad Road, the set-in-Dallas series HBO shut down before producers Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason got the chance to shoot the 10…
Because it’s never too late for, um, art. The above photo comes, of course, from Saturday’s Greenville Ave. St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and it’s courtesy council member Angela Hunt — who has plenty more just like it available on her blog. –Robert Wilonsky…
Ever wanted to get in the tattoo bidness? Because, really, now’s your big chance: Ace in the Hole, on W. Mockingbird Lane for the last year after moving out of its decade-in-Deep Ellum digs, is up for grabs on eBay at this very moment. And you can either take the…
Annie Hall’s among the eight United Artists films screening in April at the Inwood. So many film fests from which to choose: the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which kicks off next week; the USA Film Festival, which this week announced its kickoff date (April 21); and now the UA…
Hard to believe that just two years ago, Avery Johnson was Coach of the Year. 1. Jason Kidd riding the pine for three-quarters of the second half while Tyronn Lue runs the show. Remember the big trade? Ya know, the one I never liked? Wasn’t it because Kidd’s experience, leadership…
The French Room at the Adolphus, still the best restaurant in Dallas, says Zagat’s Texas survey. The new Zagat Survey’s out covering the entirety of Texas’ dining choices — by which they mean “1,505 restaurants in Austin, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio.” Tops in Dallas: The French Room at…
Fine. Perhaps that headline’s a little too gassy with hyperbole. But it’s been Unfair Park’s pleasure — nay, honor — to run a few of Justin Terveen’s photos in recent months. They’re extraordinary — like, oh, this one from New Year’s Eve and this one of the skyline, which Brad…
Albatross necklace: So what was the late political commentator Rufus Shaw talking about when, in the weeks before his suicide, he wrote a blog post bemoaning what he called “the purveyors of hate and personal destruction” in the community? Here’s one possible example: Halice Furtado was executive principal of Redirections…
“Buzz,” by Sam Merten, March 13 Shame on Us, As Usual That’s enough. Good God! Dallas finally gets a politician who actually wants to do the right thing, no matter the cost, and what do you do? You try to burn him! Craig Watkins will go down in history as…
Texas Music Project Former council member Veletta Forsythe Lill, at right Speaking of the arts, Mayor Tom just fired off a missive naming former council member Veletta Forsythe Lill as the city’s new Arts District coordinator. Lill (our Best Council Member in ’01) takes over the position previously held by…
I can’t stop watching this brightly animated, virtually populated sneak peek of Dallas’ future just posted to YouTube by the fine folks at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, scheduled to open in the fall of ’09. The Multiform Theater is especially fascinating — is that part of the…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be honored by Texas Christian University’s Brite Divinity School on March 28. These were his spiritual sons, men he’d ordained into ministry and sent into a hateful world. And now they’d turned their backs on him. Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, a Southern holy man, the son…
